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This is despite the disadvantages that the orthogonal valuation sets would present (the inclusion of implausible states, and the concentration of states in the moderate range).
The MVH study sought to avoid implausible states, however these are an inevitable feature when using an orthogonal array that brings every level of every dimension together with every level of every other dimension.
Here implausible states cannot be avoided for example states combining 'confined to bed' with 'no problems' on the 'Self Care' and 'Usual Activities' dimensions were observed in both the Green and Blue valuation subsets.
Nonetheless, the notion of plausible or implausible states is still meaningful.
It is proposed here that the most practical proxy measure for distinguishing plausible from 'probably implausible' states is through the analysis of large empirical data sets from survey responses obtained from different patient or resident populations.
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Interviewers had been instructed that if a respondent raised the issue of an implausible state, they were to respond with a statement explaining that some people do find that some of the states are difficult to imagine and to encourage respondents to carry out the valuation (or ranking task) for the state to the best of their ability.
"This man will dissuade your dying relative from seeking life saving cancer treatment in order to sell them an unproven and scientifically implausible cure," states the "Don't cry Wolfe" pledge, which several science advocates with a combined reach of hundreds of thousands of followers shared simultaneously at 2 pm Eastern time on December 23rd.
Never mind that they are counseling clients or structuring transactions, not acting as advocates -- they believe themselves to be ethically permitted to rely on strained, distorted, and implausible (or, stated more positively, creative and aggressive) interpretations of law to advance their clients' ends.
This to me is implausible since state investment is directly under government control and not subject to diffuse market forces.
Viewers are asked to believe many implausible things, including state-of-the-art technological efficiency at Logan International Airport in Boston.
Moreover, the Court's asserted hard-and-fast December 12 deadline consisted of a palpably disingenuous cobbling together of stray comments in Florida Supreme Court opinions to yield an implausible construction of state law that should have been all the more disfavored because it would and did result in a violation of equal protection under the Court's own theories in Bush v. Gore.
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